Abstract: A method that is relatively inexpensive to implement and that permits a user to conduct searches of electronically stored documents using an entire document, multiple documents or portions of a document as the search criteria and to collect, store and to share the relevant documents from the search.

Abstract: A method that is relatively inexpensive to implement and that permits a user to conduct searches of electronically stored documents using an entire document, multiple documents or portions of a document as the search criteria and to collect, store and to share the relevant documents from the search.

Abstract: A method that is relatively inexpensive to implement and that permits a user to conduct searches of electronically stored documents using an entire document, multiple documents or portions of a document as the search criteria and to collect, store and to share the relevant documents from the search.

Abstract: A searching/discovery engine is disclosed wherein the searching methodology may involve selecting at least one category of sources; selecting at least one source (i.e. a collection of documents) within at least one category of sources; utilizing search terms to search the at least one source; returning related documents from the at least one source based on the search terms; collecting any of the related documents into a collection; permitting at least one related document returned to be selected for a further search utilizing the entire text of the at least one related document as the search criteria in a selected source to return additional related documents; and exporting the collection of related documents by creating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) with all of the collected related documents stored at a location referenced in the URL.